Steel Reserve High Gravity:
Oh punishment, how my taste buds have missed you. Since I’ve had a couple of days of good beer this week, I had to remind myself where I was in the month and what better way that a high gravity beer. Since I have already touched one of the Steel Reserve brews this month, I knew this day would come and here it is, Steel Reserve High Gravity. First off, I had no clue that this was actually a high gravity until I opened it up and saw the upper part of the can (shows you my mental sharpness isn’t all it can be right now either). Deciding to press on, I sampled the beer that’s been “slow brewed for exceptional flavor” and I was surprised, but more on that in a moment. First, the beer pours well, with tons of carbonation and what has to be the loudest head so far, I could hear the CO2 bubbles popping distinctively from my standing position by the sink. The nose was of an overly sweet bad alcohol that has a metallic under current. Now the surprising part: the taste. It tastes exactly the same as every other high gravity beer. Seriously, it does. I’m beginning to believe that there is just one giant vat of this stuff somewhere in America and they just distribute it around. Nothing distinctive about this one other than it’s another really bad beer. Yep, welcome back indeed.